Program BPM Workshop and Symposium June 14 & 15, 2017
Two interesting events for the Biobased Performance Materials community were organised in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on June 14 and 15, 2017.
Interactive workshop - June 14, 2017
In the afternoon of Wednesday, June 14, an interactive workshop was organised targeting the development of new and follow-up projects within the Biobased Performance Materials R&D program including scaling up polymer production in a BPM shared facility for polymerisation. New project ideas were be launched by technological research institutes (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research and TNO), and the Universities of Maastricht, Delft, Wageningen and Groningen) followed by interactive discussions facilitating the process of creating new value chain. The inspiring day was completed with the annual Biobased Performance Materials community dinner.
On Thursday, June 15, the 6th edition of the BPM symposium took place. Key industry players such as Cargill, Stora Enso, Avantium, DuPont, Total Corbion, PaperFoam, Oc reflected on their R&D strategies and shared with participants how R&D on biobased materials leads to market entry.
Conference Centre Hof van Wageningen
Lawickse Allee 9
6701 AN Wageningen
09:00 |
Reception and registration |
09:30 |
Welcome & Opening of the symposium - Christiaan Bolck, director BPM programme |
09:45 |
BPM polymerisation pilot initiatives - Raimo van der Linden, REWIN West Brabant and Gerard Nijhoving, Senbis Polymer Innovations |
10:05 |
Session 1: Raw materials - Peter Tollington, Cargill and Dirk den Ouden, Stora Enso |
11:30 |
Session 2: Building blocks - Ed de Jong, Avantium and Christian Lenges, DuPont |
13:45 |
Session 3: François de Bie, Total Corbion PLA and Mark Geerts, Paperfoam |
15:00 |
Session 4: Bart de Koning & Chris Smit, Océ, Eddie Clarijs, Unipak and Olav Aagaard, Nomacorc |
17:00 |
Closing remarks, followed by networking drinks |